My draft front cover looked very
unprofessional and it had a edit on it that did not match the genre or style of
my magazine. I then had to make a lot of changes and improvements to fit my target
audience and genre of the music magazine. I took a whole new set of photos,
this time it was from further way so that the picture wouldn’t be stretched, I
also used an inside white background so that I wouldn’t have to cut thing out
of the background and spoil the photograph. At first I put an edit on it but after realising it looked cheap and unprofessional, I changed it and kept the original colour.
also had to use different fonts
and the main colours on the front magazine. I stuck to typically ‘feminine’
colours such as pink, purple and yellow as my magazine was for a female target audience.
As for the double page spread, I used a less edited photo to make it more professional and link the article better to the picture. I stuck to the colours on the front cover to again link it to the cover line.
Through the progression I have learned how to make the magazine look more authentic with a choice of specific fonts, colours and style of photographs. I have learned that plainer photographs look a lot more sophisticated and pricy than over edited pictures with a lot of effects. The contents page requires a lot of information therefore space cannot be wasted. The double page spread requires a lot of writing however it is good to break up some paragraphs to make it look more effective instead of having long, boring paragraphs. The writing has to flow throughout the page.
